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Today’s Historical
Highlights
1798 - Mississippi
Territory organized
1902 - Texas Oil
Company (Texaco) forms
1922 - Naval
Reserve #3, "Teapot Dome," leased to Harry F Sinclair
1926 - Forest
fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo California)
1933 - Prohibition
ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment
1934 - In India,
Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience
1940 - 1st black
to appear on US stamp (Booker T Washington)
1954 - Pres
Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" in Indo-China
1959 - Oklahoma
ends prohibition, after 51 years
1966 - US
recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor
1978 - Guttenberg
bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC
1984 - The first meeting
between the eastern and western Cherokee since the 1800s
1990 - Michael Milken
pleads innocent to security law violations
Free Rambling
Thoughts
A very good day to be out
and about. Lots of errands completed, including filling the gas tank…ouch.
I’m a little confused…about Easter. I was on Facebook, chatting
with the tour guide from Ethiopia…of the Ethiopian Coptic
Church. He is very religious and almost became a priest in the church. I
mentioned that it was Good Friday. He said that Sunday is Palm Sunday in
Ethiopia. I get that they are on an entirely different calendar, but it is usually
a few years and months different than ours. Strange that both Christians
believe in the resurrection, but differ on when to celebrate it. More knowledge
on my part is certainly needed. I’m sure other Orthodox Christians celebrate
both Easter and Christmas at different time…why?
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A
close up picture of what?
NPR Sunday Puzzle
Given a four-letter word,
name another four-letter word that starts with the last letter of the given
word. When the two words are read successively, overlapping on the shared
letter, they'll spell a familiar seven-letter word. For example, given
"prop," the answer would be "pose"; put together, the two
words form "propose."
1.
Term:
2.
Aver:
3.
Port:
4.
Earn:
5.
Fort:
6.
Stew:
7.
Lamp:
8.
Pars:
9.
Mess:
10.
Grim:
11.
Cord:
12.
Bill:
13.
Grad:
Riddle of the day
You are in a room where there are no metal objects except for two iron rods. Only one of them is a magnet. How can you identify this magnet?
Anagram:
unscramble—numbers represent the number of letters in
each answer word
Lifestyle Substance
Harper’s
Index
Price the Berkeley College
Republicans charged whte men for baked goods at their September ‘Increase
Divesity Bake Sale: $2
Price they charged Black
men: $0.75
Found on You
Tube
Planet Earth—
Joke-of-the-day
Girl: You remind me of the
sea.
Boy: Why? Because I'm so wild and romantic?
Girl: No. You make me sick.
Rules of
Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
Radial tires get two to three miles per gallon more than bias-belted or bias-ply tires.
Yeah, It Really
Happened
What is it about bats and heavy-metal
musicians? Ozzy Osbourne famously interacted with a bat in another way back in
1982, but now a member of heavy metal band Torche is wishing he never came in
contact with one of the winged creatures.
“Ok so... A bat peed in my
eye,” guitarist Andrew Elstner wrote onhis Facebook page March 29. “Whether or
not you think I'm telling the truth is irrelevant at this point. What I'm
worried about now is rabies. A bat. It pissed into my eye. [God] help me.”
The musician was staying
at a friend’s house in St. Louis when he discovered a trapped and frightened
bat in one of the rooms.
"I
switch on the overhead light/ceiling fan combo and what I think at first is a
shadow being cast from the spinning fan blades turns out to be a freaking bat,”
the musician explained. “It circles the room a few times at light speed, and on
one of the turns, dive bombs my head and squirts a little nervous pee into my
eye. Holy [expletive]. I'm laughing but run to the sink and attempt to flush my
eye out. I'm pretty sure I'm fine but...Not the most common of occurrences.”
Elstner initially brushed
it off, but, at the recommendation of both his parents and doctors, the
musician went to the hospital to be treated a day later.
He added, “With rabies,
you have a short window to get treated, and beyond that, it is incurable and
100% fatal. Having said all that, I feel like I'm getting treated for a unicorn
bite. Bunch of nonsense.”
Elstner told msnbc.com
that his treatment "wasn't so bad." "I had five (shots) totally
and while I'm generally terrified of needles, the nurse was pretty attractive
so that helped."
The guitarist, whose
Florida-based band is on the road promoting the April 24 release of their new
album, “Harmonicraft,” has since swapped his own Facebook profile photo for
that of a fang-baring bat, and has continued to find humor in the situation,
posting various updates and coverage of his story to fans.
“The bat peeing in my eye
story has finally achieved critical mass,” Elstner wrote Wednesday, when his
story was picked up by Pitchfork Media. “What a truly strange, though now
harmless, event in my life.”
He told msnbc.com, "I
had written that post just for my friends because I thought the story was
hilarious."
Somewhat Useless
Information
According to the Venerable
Bede, Easter derives its name from Eostre, an Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring.
In Medieval Europe, eggs
were forbidden during Lent. Eggs laid during that time were often boiled or
otherwise preserved. Eggs were thus a mainstay of Easter meals, and a prized
Easter gift for children and servants.
Orthodox Christians in the
Middle East and in Greece painted eggs bright red to symbolize the blood of
Christ. Hollow eggs (created by piercing the shell with a needle and blowing
out the contents) were decorated with pictures of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and
other religious figures in Armenia.
Hares and rabbits have
long been symbols of fertility. The inclusion of the hare into Easter customs
appears to have originated in Germany, where tales were told of an "Easter
hare" who laid eggs for children to find. They also baked cakes for Easter
in the shape of hares, and may have pioneered the practice of making chocolate
bunnies and eggs.
After their baptisms,
early Christians wore white robes all through Easter week to indicate their new
lives. Those had already been baptized wore new clothes instead to symbolize
their sharing a new life with Christ.
In Medieval Europe,
churchgoers would take a walk after Easter Mass, led by a crucifix or the
Easter candle. Today these walks endure as Easter Parades. People show off
their spring finery, including lovely bonnets decorated for spring.
Calendar Information
…Happening This
Week:
1-7
The
APAWS Pooper Scooper Week
Golden Rule Week
Golden Rule Week
Holy
Week
International Pooper-Scooper Week
Laugh at Work Week
National Blue Ribbon Week
National Public Health Week
National Week of the Ocean
National Window Safety Week
Medication Safety Week
International Pooper-Scooper Week
Laugh at Work Week
National Blue Ribbon Week
National Public Health Week
National Week of the Ocean
National Window Safety Week
Medication Safety Week
2-7
Testicular
Cancer Awareness Week
Explore
Your Career Options
The Masters Tournament
The Masters Tournament
4-10
Hate
Week
7-15
National
Robotics Week
Passover Week
Bat Appreciation Week
National Library Week
National Networking Week
Orthodox Holy Week
Pan American Week
Consider Christianity Week
Passover Week
Bat Appreciation Week
National Library Week
National Networking Week
Orthodox Holy Week
Pan American Week
Consider Christianity Week
Today Is
International
Beaver Day
International
Pillow Fight Day
International
Snailpapers Day It's about rejoicing in print newspapers, in their
very materiality, their very papery feel and smell, the very stuff of
newsprint.
Metric
System Day
National
Beer Day
No
Housework Day
Tangible
Karma Day
World
Health Organization Day since 1948
Today’s Other Events
Before 1000CE
30 - Scholars'
estimate Jesus crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem
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1500’s
1509 - France
declares war on Venice
1600’s
1652 - Dutch
establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa
1700’s
1788 - 1st
settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
1800’s
1830 - President Jackson has submitted a bill that would
call for the removal of most of the Indians in the southeast to lands west of
the Mississippi. In a speech today, Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen, denounces
the bill. He asked the Senate when was it ever proclaimed "that the right
of discovery contained a superior efficacy to all prior titles?"
1900’s
1906 - Mount
Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
1923 - 1st brain
tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC)
by Dr K Winfield Ney
1927 - Using
phone lines TV is sent from Wash DC to NYC
1953 - 1st
west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
1953 - Dag
Hammarskjoeld of Sweden elected 2nd UN general-secretary
1963 - Yugoslavia
proclaimed a Socialistic republic
1969 - Supreme Court
strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material
1969 - The
Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1
1977 - Consumer
Product Safety Comn bans "TRIS" flame-retardant
1980 - Jimmy
Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
1994 - Vatican
acknowledges Holocaust (Nazis killing Jews) for 1st time
1999 - The World
Trade Organisation rules in favor of the United States in its long-running
trade dispute with the European Union over bananas
2000’s
2001 - Mars
Odyssey is launched
2003 - U.S.
troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later
2009 - Former
Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for
ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces
Today’s Birthdays
In their 90’s
Ravi Shankar, Benares
India, sitar player (Sounds of India) is 92
In their 80’s
Daniel Ellsberg,
whistleblower (Pentagon Papers)/patriot is 81
is 84
In their 70’s
[Edmund G] Jerry Brown Jr,
(34th Gov- CA) is 74
Francis Ford Coppola,
Detroit, director (Godfather, Apocalypse Now) is 73
Wayne Rogers, Birmingham
Ala, actor (M*A*S*H, House Calls, Chiefs) is 79
Swami Shantananda, Hindu
Saint, Philosopher, Disciple of Swami Sivananda, Founder of Temple of Fine Arts
is 78
In their 60’s
In their 50’s
Tony Dorsett, NFL running
back (Dallas Cowboys, Heisman Trophy) is 58
In their 40’s
Bill
Bellamy, American actor and comedian (Fled, How to be a Player, Joey
Breaker) is 47
Russell
Crowe, Wellington, New Zealand, Australian/New Zealand actor (A Beautiful
Mind, Gladiator) will be 48
Remembered for being
born on this day
Hugh Blair, Scottish
preacher and man of letters in 1718
Walter Camp, Ct, father of
American football (Yale) in 1859
Will Keith Kellogg,
American cereal manufacturer in 1860
Francis C Lowell, founded
1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill in 1775
Walter Winchell, Harlem
NYC, newscaster/columnist (Untouchables) in 1897
William Wordsworth,
England, poet laureate (Prelude) in 1770
Francis Xavier,
saint/Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan in 1506
Today’s Obits
Dave Arneson, Co-creator
of Dungeons & Dragons dies of cancer at 61 in 2009
Jean-Baptiste de la Salle,
French priest/theory/saint, dies of exhaustion at 67
Phineas T Barnum, US
circus promoter (B & Bailey), dies at 88 in 1891
Jim Clark, of Scotland,
world driving champ, dies at 32 in race car in 1968
El Greco, Spanish painter
(View of Toledo), dies at 72 or 73 in 1614
Barry Nelson, American
actor dies at 89 in 2007
Answers
Brain Game: Close
Up Picture
Riddle of the day
You can hang the iron
rods on a string and watch which one turns to the north (or hang just one rod).
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
Term:
a.
termite
2.
Aver:
a.
average
3.
Port:
a.
portray
4.
Earn:
a.
earnest
5.
Fort:
a.
fortune
6.
Stew:
a.
steward
7.
Lamp:
a.
lamprey
8.
Pars:
a.
parsnips
9.
Mess:
a.
message
10.
Grim:
a.
grimace
11.
Cord:
a.
cordial
12.
Bill:
a.
billion
13.
Grad:
a.
gradual
Anagrams
Disclaimer: All opinions
are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from
the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I
have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is
out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also
for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates
may not be totally accurate.
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